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levy, and collect in the Manner herein after directed, of and from
every such Factor, Attorney, Agent, Store-Keeper, or Manager, all
such Rates and Sums of Money as shall be assessed thereon. Pro-
vided always, and be it Enacted, That where any Person or Persons
residing out of this Province, and having or holding any Messuages,
Lands, and Tenements, within the same, shall have no Factor,
Attorney, Agent, or Manager, dwelling or residing within this
Province, that then and in every such Case, the Tenants and Occu-
piers of all such Messuages, Lands, and Tenements, who hold the
same either by Parole Lease, or as Tenants at Will, or by Lease
in Writing for a Term of Years, shall be chargeable with the Pound-
Rate for the same; any Thing in this Act to the contrary notwith-
standing.
LIII. And whereas all the Messuages, Manors, Lands, Tene-
ments, Hereditaments, and Premisses, intended by this Act to be
charged with the Pound-Rate as aforesaid (his Lordship's Manors
and reserved Lands excepted) are subject and liable to the Payment
of a Quit-Rent to the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of this
Province; and whereas the Manors or Lands laid out for or reserved,
and which are leased out by the said Lord Proprietary, and intended
by this Act to be charged with the Pound-Rate, are subject and
liable to the Payment of a Rent or Rents thereupon reserved, by
Reason whereof the respective Tenants and Occupiers of the said
Manors or Lands, do not in Truth receive to their own Use the true
yearly Value of the same, for which, nevertheless, they are by this
Act chargeable with the Pound-Rate; It is therefore Enacted and
Declared by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful
to and for the Proprietors and Owners of such Messuages, Manors,
Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, and Premisses, subject and
liable to the Payment of a Quit-Rent as aforesaid, being charged
with a Pound-Rate as aforesaid, to abate and deduct, and to retain
and keep, in his, her or their own Hands, out of every such Quit-
Rent, so much of the said Pound-Rate as shall be taxed or assessed
upon the said Messuages, Manors, Lands, Tenements, Heredita-
ments, and Premisses, as a like Rate for every such Quit-Rent
respectively, shall, by a just Proportion, amount unto; That is to
say, Out of every Twenty Shillings of the said Quit-Rent, the Sum
of Two Shillings, and so after that Rate for every greater or
lesser Sum; and his said Lordship's Agent or Receiver-General,
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 8
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